“… the NRC is required, by law, to recover about 90 percent of our budget authority directly from the industry that we regulate… The NRC received a bit more than $1 billion for FY 2012, so the amount we will recover in fees by Sept. 30 is approximately $909.5 million. We collect those fees and send the money back to the U.S. Treasury.”

“This happened June 4th, 1998. That’s the day the NRC even stopped pretending to be an aggressive regulator. The Senate Appropriations Committee was headed by former Senator Pete Domenici from New Mexico.”

Thank you for providing an excellent list of articles which can be resourced under other articles which concern the welfare and safety of nuclear energy.

1. “What if you were promoting an industry that had the potential to kill and injure enormous numbers of people as well as contaminate large areas of land for tens of thousands of years? What if this industry created vast stockpiles of deadly waste but nevertheless required massive amounts of public funding to keep it going? My guess is that you might want to hide that information.”

“In response, the nuclear industry and its supporters have employed sophisticated press manipulation to move the public conversation away from these thorny issues.”